My name is Amalia Avilés-Lugo (ella/elle; she/they), I am Puerto Rican, and I am approaching island-based topics in my creative work. I use bilingual poetry alongside visual elements and materials to communicate instability and resistance ideas. I invite the viewer to consider a political conversation where connections, diversity, and horizontality are proposed as a means of subverting the isolating discourses imposed on archipelagos like Puerto Rico. I use experimental letterpress processes, printmaking, papermaking, bookmaking, writing, and installation as vehicles to engage with viewers.